Which of the following statements is the most accurate with regard to specificity coding?
A. It is probably accurate, which explains why the human nervous system contains over one hundred billion neurons.
B. Research has found that specificity encoding does occur for lower animals, such as dogs and cats, but has not found this phenomenon to exist in human beings.
C. It is unlikely to be correct because there are too many stimuli in the world to have a separate neuron for each.
D. Specificity coding is one of the areas that is only theoretical and not applied, and thus there is no way to know if it truly exists in human beings.
Answer: C
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